NEW YORK, April 7 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures
ticked up on Tuesday, following two sessions of gains on the S&P
500, with FedEx's multibillion dollar transatlantic acquisition
expected to lift the transports sector.

* A thin economic calendar and no earnings reports from S&P
500 components will leave traders wanting, with the benchmark
index less than 2 percent away from its record high set early
last month.

* FedEx shares rose 4.1 percent in premarket trading
as it seeks to buy Dutch package delivery firm TNT Express for
$4.8 billion, a deal in which United Parcel Service
failed two years ago when its bid was blocked by competition
regulators. Unlike FedEx, UPS already had a strong European
network when it bid for TNT.

* General Motors shares fell 2.1 percent in early
trade after Canada agreed to sell nearly 73.4 million GM shares
it owns to Goldman Sachs.

* Informatica Corp jumped 5 percent premarket as
the enterprise software company has received offers from two
private equity consortia and is negotiating a sale that could
value it between $5 billion and $6 billion.
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